Change of the Reasons

When I first started blogging in 2011, I did so because I wanted to tell people about my first novel which I put on Kindle. After just 6 posts I realised that I was getting no traction so I gave up.

10 years later I decided to restart it as a way of expanding upon my music reviewing. On Twitter I was limited to 280 characters a tweet and on Rockposer.com and Subba Cultcha I was reviewing for other websites with their own readership and guidelines. I loved doing that and still do, but I wanted a bit more freedom. Accordingly, I started to review my own albums, recount my musical history and go through my Singles collection from A to Z.

Within a year I realised that I wanted to branch out to books, theatre and films so I decided to make it a general review site. All of my reviews had a personal element and I felt comfortable reflecting on myself and my experiences in a safer environment. This made me realise that I needed to expand still further.

The next incarnation of my blog was where I focused much more on personal experiences by using the media or the events, often as the background, to expand on ideas, feelings and opinions. I started to take part in Blogmas, 24 days of posts from the First of December, and found the balance, I like to think, between the personal and the media or event.

So, where are we now? Well, essentially, I am looking forward to the new phase of life that I have in front of me. I am full of ideas for the direction this blog will take and answering the daily prompt is a big part of that. I now want to expand my blog, increase the number of views and improve the quality of my writing still further. This blog will form one of the cornerstones of my life from now on, and I can’t wait to see what it brings.

So there you have it. My reasons for blogging are ever changing. As a final thought, I would love to get more comments underneath the posts and I hope that my future writing will justify that extra interaction.

Thank you to everyone who has read even one of my posts. You are very much appreciated.